Bridging innate with adaptive immunity in transplantation: triggers, sensors, and modulators

Kathryn J Wood1, Christophe Mariat, Oliver Thaunat

  • 11 Transplantation Research Immunology Group, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. 2 Service de Néphrologie, Dialyse et Transplantation Rénale, Hôpital Nord, CHU de Saint-Etienne, France. 3 Department of Renal Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France. 4 Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, University Hospital, Dijon, France. 5 Address correspondence to: Kathryn J. Wood, Transplantation Research Immunology Group, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.

Transplantation
|October 7, 2014
PubMed

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